Samson & Goliath
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Samson & Goliath, also known as Young Samson, is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC, where it debuted on September 9, 1967.[1] Primarily sponsored by General Mills, who controlled the distribution rights through its agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, Samson & Goliath was retitled Young Samson in April 1968 to avoid confusion with the stop-motion Christian television series Davey and Goliath.[1][2]
Samson & Goliath | |
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Also known as | Young Samson |
Genre | Superhero |
Created by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Written by | Tony Benedict Walter Black Dalton Sandifer Ed Brandt |
Directed by | Joseph Barbera William Hanna |
Voices of | Tim Matheson Don Messick John Stephenson |
Narrated by | Don Messick |
Theme music composer | Ted Nichols |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 20 |
Production | |
Producer | Joseph Barbera |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | September 9, 1967 (1967-09-09) ā August 31, 1968 (1968-08-31) |
Twenty-six 12-minute episodes of the series were produced, six of which no longer exist.[2] Samson & Goliath cartoons were paired with other General Mills-sponsored shows such as Tennessee Tuxedo and Go Go Gophers to form a full half-hour for their original network broadcasts.[3] Young Samson was later shown in syndication with The Space Kidettes as The Space Kidettes and Young Samson, distributed by The Program Exchange.[2][3] The rights were acquired by Warner Bros. Television Distribution when it became rights owner of the Hanna-Barbera catalog.
The series was the only Dancer Fitzgerald Sample-sponsored cartoon to be outsourced to Hanna-Barbera; the agency's in-house studio, Gamma Productions, had closed shortly before the series began. (It was also the only cartoon in the DFS portfolio not to be created either by Jay Ward Productions or by Total Television.)